National Gazetteer (1868) - Chirton

"CHIRTON, (or Cherringten, or Shorten), a parish in the hundred of
Swanborough, in the county of Wilts, 5 miles S.E. of Devizes. The living is
a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury, value £190, in the patronage of the
lord chancellor. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a
handsome structure in the Norman style of architecture. It contains a
beautiful font. Here is a National school. The manorial rights are vested
in the Heytesbury Trustees."

"CONOCK, a tything in the parish of Chirton, hundred of Swanborough, in the
county of Wilts, half a mile S.W. of Churton, and 4 miles S.E. of Devizes.
It is situated under the Ridge Way."